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Scolding parliamentary theatre and traditional media misses the structural driver: a business model that treats public fury as an extractive resource.
“Build it and they will come” is often derided as a concept. So long as going to and from Sydney CBD is such a barrier, the derision will be...
The troubled renewable energy scheme’s rising costs and delays show that Australia needs political discipline, planning and competence to build...
The data-centre firm’s insatiable appetite for capital meant brokers loved it. Now it’s pitched as a value trade, but only if it can survive.
The total lack of regulation of the sovereign and cyber risks of connected vehicles is a blind spot that Australia is speeding towards without a...
Australia can either drift into a divided society with stagnant real incomes or make the difficult decisions needed to lift productivity and restore...
While there are many enhancements available in domestic policy, none rival the challenges of economic statecraft to maintain ties with both China and...
After four decades and billions of dollars, those behind Sydney’s new airport can’t afford for it to become peripheral.
Data centre operators have vastly overestimated their social licence to build and underestimated the immense leverage ordinary citizens have over land...
Instead of punishing the many in an increasingly futile attempt to catch the few, we need to rethink how we teach and how we assess whether learning...
Fees earned for outperformance by venture capital and other fund managers look and smell a lot like labour income that should be taxed at higher...
The universal reaction of horror from across the political spectrum is tempered by the utter lack of surprise.
In the property financing market, the pendulum has well and truly swung in favour of lenders as private credit funds are in retreat. So who is going...
Before expanding the GST, Australia should confront the deeper flaws in Commonwealth–state financial relations and the consequential fiscal...
The only solution is to install a new treasurer who will follow the Paul Keating playbook rather than chasing Wayne Swan’s ponies and rainbows.
The prime minister has been asking for everyone to “take the temperature down” but while that’s an important sentiment, that’s not a course of...
As Australian fashion is crunched, the incoming chair says she wants to make AFF a major event like the Australian Open.
The billionaire’s unlikely announcement feels like an attempt to quell public anger over AI – and a chance to outdo rival Anthropic’s own share...
Our repurchase market remains bilateral and has not evolved to the same extent as major international markets.
We lack the intention and focus of a whole-of-government strategy that treats culture as an export industry, with the ambition and funding to match.
For Australian businesses, reducing dependence on imported fuel makes them less vulnerable to global price shocks. It would also create demand for...
Allegations of mistreatment of women should be above all forms of political point-scoring. That includes being weaponised for internal factional...
A trade agreement is meant to open markets, not to lock in one government’s politics long after the negotiators have moved on.
Rioters are likely to be incensed by Marine Le Pen replacing the failing centrism of recent decades that something smelling like a mild civil war...
Rather than accelerate this process of civic atrophy, existing trusts should be grandfathered and the reforms applied only to new trusts.
It’s time for Australia to raise and broaden underutilised consumption taxes. Here’s how we can do that.
A picture of two adoring aides gazing at their president is a snapshot of Donald Trump’s hunger for adulation as the public grows increasingly angry.
If some inflationary pressures are relatively unresponsive to monetary policy, the interest-sensitive parts of the economy must carry a...
What happens in Victoria over the next five weeks matters for the nation, both economically and politically.
When prices stop responding to bad news, it’s a sign the bottom is near. Let’s hope that’s the case for bonds and all other assets trashed by...
Our most potent national myth, the Anzacs, is a story about dying for each other. It has little to say about living together.
Labor assumes the Coalition is too diminished and divided to mount a serious comeback. But an ailing economy has turned the Liberal Party into a wild...
As capital exits the non-bank sector, credit rationing could be next, and entrench a negative feedback loop.
Michel Foucault’s influence is so pervasive that a philosophy intended to challenge established ways of thinking has itself become an established...
JPMorgan filters out external artificial intelligence as warnings come about the risk from such agents that now generate more than 57 per cent of web...
Whether Josh Frydenberg’s comeback becomes a reality or fades into the political rearview mirror will depend on how he walks several tightrope...
Not understanding business, or having no instinct for the commercial world, is not a crime. But developing policy on the fly, all for political...
When everything in the data is already in the price, the edge belongs to the analyst who still picks up the phone.
An AI agent that reliably takes responsibility for household planning will free time and attention currently consumed by unpaid work.
The opposition leader cannot credibly call for a bipartisan taskforce to fix the budget while rejecting the ALP plan to cut private health rebates.
Ironically, the Greens’ obstructionism might save the government from crashing on the rushed, poorly thought-out crackdown on investment tax...
On October 1, Australia took a decisive step towards sovereign, fairer and free digital payments by ending hidden rorts and a stranglehold by...
We should establish a Commonwealth regional aircraft investment fund to buy modern turboprops and lease them to carriers at concessional rates.
The former treasurer is not the first former treasurer to urge spending restraint he never practised.
Ministers, including Attorney-General Michelle Rowland, have expressed concern about the impact of the credit card fee fiasco and increased tax on...
Law firms should take responsibility for building AI tools that tell people what they need to know, not what they want to hear.
A press secretary’s performance is a legitimate subject for public scrutiny. But if the language used relies on sexism or ridicule, that deserves...
Azora Capital, a US hedge fund that specialises in trading banks, has noticed a counterintuitive trend that is instructive for Australia’s largest...
Securing Australia’s future relies on upholding liberal democratic principles like the rule of law, free speech, and a fair go for all.
We must take a clear-eyed view of the potential fallout if the technology fails to live up to the hype, or is knocked off course by changing market...
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